Emergency Medicine News & Articles

One of the greatest threats to African emergency care development is an imported, Western understanding of the standard of care. If outsiders want to have a positive impact on African emergency medicine, we need to talk less, listen more, and focus on local talent and resources.

In 2015, Google.org awarded Trek Medics International a $250,000 seed grant. The objective? To use a program called Beacon to help implement localized emergency response with SMS technology and available transit, rather than driving toward Western-style ambulance EMS.